The Harlowton news. [volume], May 07, 1909, Image 2

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N. Tears Shed.
týF all the existing powers of the
earth, perhaps none have given
more trouble and agitation than the
Turkish Empire. The Sultan, Abdul
Hamid II., who has just been deposed
came to his throne in August, 1876 in
a whirl-wind of passion and protest.
Ever since his reign began the, his
tory of Turkey has been a series of
butcheries and atrocities so cruel and
unspeakable that the recoil must ne
cessarily be severe. From the begin
ning his reign was doomed to be a
fiasco. His consummate ability as a
diplomat, in granting the constitu
tional party at different times, conces
sions that would for the moment ap
pease its desire, has been the one fac
tor that has continued the cruel
drama.
The Sultan is now desposed, and
throughout the civilized world there
does not appear to be one word nf
sympathy for the fallen monarch. By
his continued disregard for tl-e rights
I of his subjects, he brought upon him
self his own dethronement. The ap
plication of 16th century methods in
monarchial government would not
work even with the jaded and depres
sed subjects of the Ottoman Empire.
The sturdy advance of civilization
" must also have its influence upon
sense of these people. When "The
- sick man" finally passes away, the
civilized world will rejoice that en
) lightened goverment has lost its most
* deteriorating influence.
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In these days of happy prosperity,
it is well to remember that if adver
sity hath killed its thousands, pros
I perity hath killed its tens of thou
sands. The one deceives, the other
instructs; the one is miserably happy,
the other happily miserable; This
must be the reason that so many
philosophers voluntarily seek adver
sity and commend it in their pre
cepts. But we all like prosperity just
the same.
The recent gambling in wheat by
which one man through cornering the
commodity made a good sized fortune
is additional evidence that laws
should be enacted to effectually make
such transactions impossible. The
a rapid rise in wheat prices was of no
benefit to the farmer while it was a
g positive injury to the consumer who
has had to pay more for flour and
bread.
A man was recently sentenced to
prison for stealing a postage stamp.
* He was a most foolish man and
3 should know better. If he had stolen
a railroad, or public lands or some
thing else on an equally large scale he
would be banquetted right and left
and held in highest honor by Wall
Street. But to steal a postage stamp!
Could human depravity go any lower.
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* The evident determination of the
citizens to clean up the city, not only
from disreputable characters that are
like leeches upon the public, but from
the over abundance of old garbage,
tin-cans and other litter, shows a pro
gressive spirit, that will surely make
for the betterment of the town.
There are two organizations in
Harlowton that loom up with the
best of them, and these organizations
are the band and the ball team. Both
are a big help to the town in many
ways, and are deserving of some
strong support.
Politics in practice too often means
all for party,`nothing for people; all
for policy, nothing for principle; all
for office, nothing for honor; all for
power, nothing for progress.
In grafting and business corpora
tion frauds, the wily Japanese seems
to keep well abreast of American civ
. ilization.
Men should keep their eyes wide
open before marriage, and half shut
afterwards.
Boost Harlowton by sending a sam
ple copy of the News to your friends
back east.
You can boost Harlowton by clean
ing up your yards and vacant lots.
A person with a bad name is al
ready half-hanged.
2 T has now been decided that Har
lowton should make the nation's
birthday memorable in this vicinity
by having a rousing celebration. This
action of the business men is not
I only far-sighted from a business
standpoint, but it is patriotic as well.
It is also a move that will 1w appre
ciated by a large number of children
who will not be able to go to Lewis
town, or any other town. These are I
the people that must have the atten
tion of the business men, and whose
welfare is to be given some considera
tion. If for no other reason, the ac
tion is wise.
But there are other cogent reasons
why a town of the size of Harlowton
should not let the greatest holliday
of she year slip by without some ob
servation. To allow the day to slip
by without some celebration is an act
of a dead town, and Harlowton this
year is very much alive. The adver
I tising that the town would receive
I from the celebration would alone
i warrant the expenditure.
It is now up to the citizens to make
- the affair a success. It is not enough
[ to depend on the various committees.
I Beside financial support, the citizens
- must contribute in the way of boost
- ing and enthusiasm, and must en
w courage all who are endeavoring to
i make the celebration successful. A
- kitock on a public undertaking of
- this kind will do more to discourage
- and hamper the work, than can be
remedied by a week of good hard
I working. Here is an opportunity
for some legitimate boosting, let us
I all get busy and show the people what.
s can be done by the citizens of Hlar
f lowton.
Y In the year 1890 wool was selling
for 16 and 17 cents. wool growers
were happy, and all thot the price
was right. Then came the panic and
t the bottom fell out of wool, the
wool-growers predicted that the
price of fleece would never return to
its former height. Now comes the
good news that Dave Stewart of Big
e Timber tops the Montana market at
e 23 cents, and Williams and Hagen of
Big Elk following closely at 22 cents.
t Surely the price of a man's product
has its effect upon his mind.
WORD FROM WEBER
Says They Have Nice Home--Has Secur
ed Booth at the
Fair.
Word has been received from Hank
Weber, who sold out here some time
. ago to his two brothers, Nick and
- Lou, and then moved to Seattle. He
t states that they have a nice place in
which to live, and are very comfort
able with all the modern convenien
ces. Among those who are known in
Harlowton that he has met in Seattle
is Mr. Jameson, the Bozeman flour
man.
Mr. Weber also announces that he
has secured a clirar commission on
the "Pay Streak," the name given to
the Seattle mid-way on the fair
grounds. He will open up on the 1st.
I of June. If any one from this locali
ty should desire to see Mr. Weber or
Bob, he will find them in the third
booth below the railroad track and
directly in front of the streets of
* Cario.
1 The friends of the Webers here will
be glad to receive this good news.
t LOOKS GOOD TO HIM
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L. W. Curtis Writes Booster Letter
to Hardware Journal and Gets
Name in Paper.
The American Artisan and Hard
ware Record of May 1st contains the
following account of a letter written
by L. W. Curtis, our popular plum
- ber and steam-fitter:
"L. W. Curtis, a tinsmith, plumber
and steamfitter of Harlowton, Mon
tana writing to the American Artis
1 an under date of April 20, advises
3 that there are numbers of good busi
s ness openings along the new exten
I sion of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
V Puget Sound Railroad. A small shop,
3 he says, with good business manage
ment can grow rapidly in Montana,
especially in the western part of the
g state, as the section in which he is
I located is said to be pretty well taken
I up in his particular line. Conclud
r ing his letter Mr. Curtis says: 'We
have new settlers out here everyday,
taking up claims or buying them for
farming purposes. I have been locat
ed in this town for six months, hav
ing come here from the coast, and
- have not missed a single week's work
during that time. All lines of busi
ness are flourishing in the state and
e we look for a prosperous year in Mon
t tana.'
As he if not acquainted with east
ern business houses, Mr. Curtis re
- quests us to announce that he is de
a sirous of receiving catalogs with
prices of materials used in his line of
business, which includes the instal
lation of warm-air furnace heating
- systems."'
This letter published as it was in a
bardware journal which has the
restest circulation of any paper of
- to kind is a decided lift for the
hustling city on the Musselshell.
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I RAT1I1AL PIl[( IDI1AIION AND DR r1? inifl
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q From IIth Biennial Report of Bureau of Agriculture, Labor & Industry.
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There are certain of the well known d
grain producing sections of Montana f.
where farming is carried on under A
practically the same conditions which u
prevail in humid states. This must a
not be connected in any way with re- r
cent or prospective development of ,
so-called dry land farming. A brief t
study of the records of precipitation
in various di~trlcts will show the dis- a
tinction in methods very clearly. On y
the average, Montana presents a c
spring and summer reasonably moit. f
followed by a later dry summer and v
fall, and a winter that on occasionm c
is very cold and deep snow. The re
sult is to give a natural vegetation r
that grows rapidly, is generally short, J
matures early and with a wiry root I
able to stand extreme drought and r
cold. The wonderful production of
grass upon the ranges, no less than r
the returns from- dry farms, proves
that abundant crops can be grown up- c
on large areas of Montana farming i
lands, depending entirely upon its c
conservation in others. The old time
farming without water, and the new ;
dry farming system are, however, en- i
tirely separate and distinct. They
vary not alone in respect to the loca- I
tion occupied in the state, but in 1
method as well. The high precipita
tion in certain sections of the state ;
has for years enabled the farmers to ,
grow barley and other grains which ;
excelled any produced by irrigation.
It is interesting to know that this ex
cessive rainfall is to be looked for on
the western slopes of mountains where
the wind blows over a wide stretch of
valley to the west. These conditions
prevail on the western slope of the
Rocky Mountains in Flathead county,
where irrigation is the exception; on
the westerly slopes of the Highwood.
the Belt and the Big Snowy Mount
in Fergus and Cascade counties, on
the western slopes of the Pryor and
Big Horn Mountains in Carbon
counties.
Incidentally, these are also the
noted regions for fruit culture. It is
of vast importance agriculturally to
note that during the growing months
of April, May, June and July, the
rainfall is nearly if not quite equal to
that in the humid states.
The compiled records show the max
imum of rainfall in Montana to be
I twenty-four inches in the north
western part of the state. From this
it decreases to twenty-two inches on
the eastern boundary of Flathead
county, and to sixteen inches on the
eastern boundary of Teton county.
The spring and early summer rainfall
is about eight inches, which is not as
large a proportion of the yearly rain
fall as in some other localities of the
state. The system of farming prac
ticed here is practically identical with
r that which prevails in eastern states.
At the head waters of the Teton
- and Sun rivers, and extending over
r the divide down the valley to the
i Blackfoot river, the annual rainfall is
I eighteen inches, while around the
f towns of Augusta. St. Peters and
Chouteau the spring and early sum
I mer rains rpn up from nine to twelve
inches. In Fergus county, and ex
tending down into a portion of
Meagher, the annual fall climbs from
fourteen to twenty inches, and the
early rainfall from eight to eleven
r inches. In Carbon and Sweetgrass
counties with Red Lodge as a center
there is an area of large rainfall run
ning from fourteen to nineteen inches,
with spring and summer fall of from
- nine to eleven inches. Yet another
district of large rainfall is north of
Glendive on the divide between the
- Yellowstone and Missouri rivers.
Here the yearly precipitation runs to
eighteen inches, an average fall of
-eight inches in spring and sum mer .
-Experience has proven that there is
suilicleent rainfall properly distributed
to make crops on the high plateaus
-north of the milk river, and between
the Milk and Missouri rivers in Chou
teau and Valley counties. This is
true also of the southeastern part of
Custer county. Indications are favor
able for dry farming where a deep
dark soil with a close tough sod is
found, and where the rainfall from
April to July is seven or eight inches
or over: but those areas with an aver
age of twelve inches or less of annual
rain, and with less than seven inches
of spring and early summer rain should
be avoided.
There is, of course, a very consider
able variation in rainfall taking one
year with another, and during the
dry seasons, partial, or even total
failure of crops nay be expected, but
work and crops must be planned ac
cordingly.
Perhaps the most famous of all the
new dry farming districts is the great
Judith Basin in Central Montana.
Here it is estimaued that less than a
million and a half acres will in time
yield as bountiful crops of winter
wheat as do the one hundred thou
sand acres now in cultivation. Many
elevators are heing erected to care
for the vast increase, three being lo
cated at Lewistown. The country is
rapidly taking on the appearance of
an eastern farming center, and is be
ing settled with a rush. One may
ride for miles through well cultivated
tields, the road fenced on either side.
Crops are not confined to wheat, but
oats, rye, barley and splendid alfalfa
are grown. Two new railroads affords
excellent transportation facilities,
and both are doing good work in
bringing settlers to the land. The
season of 1907 was especially favor
able and few, if any of the wheat
farms yielded less than thirty bushels
an acre. 1908 was very dry, there be
ing no rain from June 8 to August 12.
In spite of this the average of wheat
for the year will not be less than
twenty bushels, and the total yield
about two million bushels. These re
- suits do not come from slip-shod farm
I ing methods, but come alone with
I careful, intelligent cultivation and
I rigid adherence to system. All roots
do exceedingly well, one farmer re
porting 206 bushels of potatoes to the
acre, while the averages for the Basin
is not less than 150 bushels. Oats
yield from 60 to 90 bushels, averaging
40 pounds to the bushel, and declared
by the American Cereal company to
of the highest known quality for the
- manufacture of oatmeal.
3 Berries and small fruits do well,
and some apples and plums are grown
8 although the recent settlement of the
1 country has not given time for any
I thing extensive in this "irection.
3 There are thirty-six steam plows now
at work in the Basin, and fully 75,000
I acres of virgin soil will be broken for
next year's crops, and the continued
- addition of settlers who are taking up
these lands or buying them from own
- ers, should make the added acreage in
crop even larger in 1910.
Another exceptionally fine location
for dry farming is in Valley county
r around the Fort Peck Indian Reser
vation. Hundreds of settlers have
s taken up land here, and while there
z has been some unfortunate experien
ces from adverse weather conditions
- both in summer and winter, the loca
tors have unbounded faith in the fer
tility of the soil, and the future pros
perity of the district. But few, if
any, h tve become so discouraged as to
e abandon their claims.
}Favorable conditions continue west
s ward from the Fort Peck reservation
r for many miles, into Choteau, Teton
- and Cascade counties. True, there
have been seasons of failure, but for
fifteen yvars wheat grown entirely
without water has averaged about
f twenty-five bushels an acre, as
against twelve to fourteen bushels in
Minnesota and the Dakotas during
the same period.
You should see the new silk Petti
Scoats at Marshails.
Joe Freeman, of Lennep, came down
Sunday to take in the Mason's ban
-quet. in the evening.
sWord has been received from Mrs.
T. G. H-analik and Mrs. Buckley.
They are now at Lowrey, Minnesota
- visiting among friends, and state that
p they are enjoying the trip immensely.
6[OR6[ NRII UOS ad IAflS[[
Baggage hauled to and
from depot on short notice.
Sample Room in connection.
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